Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 08, 2024

Another Big History - why the West is WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic)

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Alas, I usually end up reading reviews of books rather than the books themselves. Here I want to pass on clips from Shulevitz's review i...
Monday, May 06, 2024

Are we the cows of the future?

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One of the questions posed by Yuval Harari in his writing on our possible futures is "What are we to do with all these humans who are...
Friday, May 03, 2024

Can there be scientific criteria for what is moral behavior?

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I want to pass on an essay by Sam Harris updating his 2011 book "The  Moral Landscape."   I'm doing this mainly so that I can...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The world of decentralized everything.

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Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions , I want to pass on (again, to my future self, and possibly a few techie Mi...
Monday, April 08, 2024

New protocols for uncertain times.

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I want to point to a project launched by Venkatest Rao and others last year: “The Summer of Protocols.”  Some background for this project ca...
Friday, March 29, 2024

How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

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I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Cultu...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Fundamentally changing the nature of war.

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I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some ...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

An inexpensive Helium Mobile 5G cellphone plan that pays you to use it?

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This is a followup to the previous post describing my setting up a G5 hotspot on Helium’s decentralized 5G infrastructure that earns MOBILE ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

MindBlog becomes a 5G cellular hotspot in the the low-priced ‘People’s Cell Phone Network’ - Helium Mobile

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I am writing this post, as is frequently the case, for myself to be able to look up in the future, as well as for MindBlog techie readers wh...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Explaining the evolution of gossip

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 A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at ...
Friday, March 01, 2024

The Hidden History of Debt

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I pass on this link from the latest Human Bridges newsletter, and would encourage readers to subscribe to and support the Observatory's...